Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Adelie penguins in the South Shetland Islands.jpg

File:Adelie penguins in the South Shetland Islands.jpg, featured edit

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Info created by ravas51 - uploaded by Peterfitzgerald (by Flickr upload bot) - nominated by Arion -- 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 16:41, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great subject, composition and mood. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 16:41, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment this picture is NOT photoshopped for sure? I have doubts. --Hubertl 17:03, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment You're first. ;-) Noise and IMO not natural penguins. Background overprocessed. And a very small file. --XRay ^talk 17:48, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, at least it looks transported penguins... --Laitche (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Neutral OK, it isn't photoshopped but overprocessed especially penguins are oversharpened, so I cannot support this. --Laitche (talk) 09:09, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral Doesn't look 'shopped, and the noise doesn't bother me either. It IS, however, tilting to the ~~left~~ right. ~2.5 degrees ccw will solve, will support when that's done. KennyOMG Support now. KennyOMG (talk) 21:56, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cool. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 04:50, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Chilly. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support given that it's not photoshopped... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:05, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 08:30, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - To me, this is a great photograph, taken under very adverse circumstances (OK, it was summer, but still!). I guess I may not be that skilled at seeing oversharpening, but is it really that drastic? Perhaps it could be corrected. By the way, I did a Google image search on "penguins in snow" and did see other pictures in which penguins had part of their bodies in the snow, so I don't think that's so odd. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:41, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 11:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral In my opinion disturbing noise in the background.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:41, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - It's funny: I find a lot of the bokeh that most of you like a lot more fuzzy and disturbing than this noise, which I ascribed (perhaps incorrectly) to a focus on the nearby penguins. I see the noise some at full size but at full-page size, it doesn't bother me and just looks like a background. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:15, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support Can't see anything in there that would suggest that the image content has been manipulated, especially when viewed in context with the other pictures of that trip at Flickr. Yes, it's a bit noisy when seen at full resolution, but you could easily print this at A4 (or possibly even A3) without noticing. I'd welcome the slight tilt to be corrected, but as it's hard to recognize I don't really care. All in all: Awesome picture. --El Grafo (talk) 16:53, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Very weak support Only because the penguins (which I think the image creator overprocessed the image as a whole to get so sharp, hence the skepticism above) came out so well and it is really difficult to get this sort of shot for any animal in the wild. In addition to the noise issues, the background has a lot going on; only the crispness of the penguins keeps it from being too much of a distraction. Daniel Case (talk) 20:25, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice enough photo, but why should it be considered for FP? Charles (talk) 15:51, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Golden Bosnian Lily (talk) 09:35, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I think post-processing could be better. Background needs de-noising (or at least less sharpening), and the whole picture a CCW rotation. --Kabelleger (talk) 17:03, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment to @KennyOMG, El Grafo, and Kabelleger: Tilt fixed. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:51, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Pofka (talk) 11:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 16:32, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 3 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 01:23, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds